Longtime friend of Hillary Clinton, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe said that he believes that Clinton will support the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a claim that the Clinton campaign immediately disputed.
“I worry that if we don’t do TPP, at some point China’s going to break the rules—but Hillary understands this,” said McAuliffe after his speech at the Democratic National Convention in an interview with Politico.
“Once the election’s over, and we sit down on trade, people understand a couple things we want to fix on it but going forward we got to build a global economy,” he continued.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has been a contentious theme in the election season, with Republican Nominee Donald Trump and insurgent Democratic runner-up Bernie Sanders opposing the passing of the trade deal through Congress.
Clinton, during the primary season, changed her position from a full-throated endorsement of the trade deal to opposing the trade deal after increased pressure and criticism from her opponents.
Pressed on whether or not she would support the trade deal, McAuliffe was confident that she would reverse her decision to oppose it.
